Senate debates

Tuesday, 24 March 2026

Questions without Notice

Fuel

3:01 pm

Photo of Tim AyresTim Ayres (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Industry and Innovation) Share this | Hansard source

I'm sure, if you'd buttonholed Minister Bowen on the way in here, he would have told you that we have precisely those figures available. This government has been completely transparent with the Australian people about what is happening. If the question was 'what are they?' then I would have been delighted to answer. Instead, I have a minute and a half to explain what figures we have. If Senator Chandler wants to ask what they are, I'm sure I'd be delighted to support her question with an answer.

It is true, at a national level, both because of the minimum stockholding which did not exist when we came to government and because of the fact that this government has released 20 per cent of the stockholding, that not all of the work has been done, particularly in regional Australia, particularly in some petrol stations like, for example, in New South Wales, where there are 164 petrol stations with no diesel. Overwhelmingly—

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